Daniel Lyons Quotes

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

Daniel Lyons

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• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • Friends
  • End

• I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Customer

• And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Example
  • Terror

• I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Best
  • Singer

• Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Up
  • Luxury
  • Italy

• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Me
  • Running

• The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you 'like' that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch 'vomit' not 'like', but they don't give you that option on Facebook.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Sex

• The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Mind
  • Why

• I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Snake

• Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Parents

• I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

  

  Buddy Rich

• I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini

• Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Thoughts
  • Profound

• Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Writing
  • Reality

• Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • Mind
  • Church

• I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Work
  • Control

• I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

  

  Daniel Lyons